Seeing Rare 'Beauty' in the World

By Jacki Lyden

Published March 13, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

Poet, philosopher, Heidegger scholar and former priest John O'Donohue has written several books on Celtic spirituality. O'Donohue lives in the Connemara region in the West of Ireland, a haunting landscape of stone, sea and rainbows. His latest book is Beauty.

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